Company Quote by Cesare Pavese

All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must…

— Kenneth Tynan

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial…

— Brooks Atkinson

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

— John Selden

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them…

— Max Beerbohm

“Solitary writers come out of nowhere and do not belong anywhere. They are not domesticated or socialized, not as writers. Their subject is not…

— Thomas Ligotti

“You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all.…

— Franz Kafka

When a man's talk is commonplace and his writings uncommon, it means that his talent lies in the place from which he borrows it,…

— Michel De Montaigne

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate…

— Ray Birdwhistell

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

— Samuel Johnson

The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience…

— Wright Morris